“When I was only three. I sang my first aria in pubic".

- Typo opening sentence, recalled first printing of Beverly Sills autobiography, “Bubbles”

No, as a Vermonter licensed 59 years ago, I saw that, when it rained in Marin County, or snowed in Dixie, people forgot how to drive. Those days, delivering newspapers by rear-wheel drive car on snowy/icy rural Vermont roads, you’d back up the hill, thus converting your Plymouth Valiant to FWD.

Articles in once reputable publications, now written only to generate commissions through links. E.g.: bit.ly/4jagPoW “Battery low on your AirTag? Don’t buy a new one, buy these batteries!” That’s like saying, “Your car’s tank running low? Don’t buy a new one, fill up with this gas!”

…and the bear would like to play pickleball

But when I look up the lyrics of the songs implanted in my memory like that, I see that I always heard them wrong.

apostrophes on mailbox names, or not.
And then, every time you drive by

its

Think she’ll have to add a Tim Cook caricature to the cartoon: variety.com/2025/digital...